Then would you agree that a well supplied military regiment with warships occupying a fort within a border with port access after they agreed to leave is an act of aggression?
Then how is it shameful that they fired first? Should they have waited for the subjugation to commence? Do US citizens need to be shot before they can exercise the second amendment?
You said the south did themselves a disservice by firing first. Is that not to say they acted shamefully? Perhaps I misread your intent, but you seem to think they were in the wrong for doing it.
In my opinion calling it a "trap" is stretching the lexicon to a breaking point. It's hardly a trap to point a loaded gun at someone to goad them into self defense.
Then would you agree that a well supplied military regiment with warships occupying a fort within a border with port access after they agreed to leave is an act of aggression?
Of course that's how traps work. You don't bait a trap with food the mouse ain't going to eat.
Then how is it shameful that they fired first? Should they have waited for the subjugation to commence? Do US citizens need to be shot before they can exercise the second amendment?
Who said it was shameful?
You said the south did themselves a disservice by firing first. Is that not to say they acted shamefully? Perhaps I misread your intent, but you seem to think they were in the wrong for doing it.
In my opinion calling it a "trap" is stretching the lexicon to a breaking point. It's hardly a trap to point a loaded gun at someone to goad them into self defense.